Jacques Bertrand (Director, Collaborative Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies and Professor, Political Science) has published Winning by Process: The State and Neutralization of Ethnic Minorities in Myanmar (Cornell University Press, 2022). Winning by Process asks why the peace...
Tong Lam’s photo essay for positions analyzes the politics of eviction, demolition, resistance, and gentrification in China through an urban village renewal project. Tong Lam; The Dark Side of the Miracle: Spectacular and Precarious Accumulation in an Urban Village under Siege...
Diana Fu and Emile Dirks have co-published a chapter in a new book published by Brookings Press. The book, The Party Leads All: The Evolving Role of the Chinese Communist Party (Brookings Institution Press, 2022). Their chapter, “The Party’s Struggle...
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 May 2022 Emmrich, Christoph, Joseph McQuade, Sana Aiyar and Thibaut d’Hubert. (2022). Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies: A Roundtable. Modern Asian Studies, 1-38. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X21000718 Abstract Burma, or Myanmar as it was renamed...
Lynette H. Ong (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Asian Institute) has published Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China (Oxford University Press, 2022). A compelling examination of China’s engagement of nonstate actors as a counterintuitive solution to...
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December 5, 2014
What do rice, politics, and infrastructures have to do with each other? More than intuition would have us believe, as Atsuro Morita highlighted in his November 28, 2014 talk at the Asian Institute on multispecies infrastructures in Thailand’s Chao Phraya...
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November 26, 2014
The English Poet, Rudyard Kipling believed that the western civilization was duty bound to enlighten the more brutish and barbaric parts of the world. His poem, the White Man’s Burden opens by referring to these people as “new-caught, sullen peoples,...
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November 20, 2014
An unresolved war in the Korean Peninsula continues to affect people’s lives even today. Korea’s geopolitical conditions have justified as state of emergency as a rule governing life. To address this issue, on October 24, 2014 the Centre for the...
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November 20, 2014
The Korean War continues to be the longest drawn conflict in the 20th century. Despite relative peace and tranquillity at the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas, the war officially is still ongoing sixty-four years from its breakout. Korea thus...
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November 14, 2014
Third-year student Fatin Tawfig attended every part of the Centre for the Study of Korea’s recent symposium: read about her experience.
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November 5, 2014
Asian Institute affiliated Professor Amrita Daniere co-directs a new multimillion dollar partnership on climate resilience
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November 4, 2014
Nehruvian strong handed centralization coupled with bureaucratic despotism will be the future of India under the newly elected Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Despite being, what many would say, the antithesis of a secular Jawaharlal Nehru, Modi has demonstrated several...
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October 7, 2014
Professor Janet Poole’s forthcoming book discusses Korea’s literary production during Japanese rule
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October 7, 2014
Living on Your Own: Young Women and the Pursuit for Independence Professor Jesook Song, Associate Professor of Anthropology and a faculty affiliate of the Centre for the Study of Korea at the University of Toronto, has published Living on...
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September 23, 2014
Asian Institute Professor Lynette Ong, a political scientist and China specialist, was interviewed by BBC World on their September 8, 2014 BBC World Service Daily Podcast. The program was about how the Chinese government is trying to manage internal migration...
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